UK’s Starmer to press for US security guarantees ahead of high-stakes meeting between Trump and Zelensky

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STARMER: ‘MORE IMPORTANT THAN EVER THAT WE ARE UNITED’: Three days after French President ​​Emmanuel Macron attempted to find common ground on Ukraine with President Donald Trump in a White House visit, it’s U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s turn to give it a go.

Starmer, who is expected to draw on the “special relationship” between the two nations, will be pressing the case that “there can be no negotiations about Ukraine, without Ukraine” and will recognize the need for Europe to “step up for the good of collective European security” according to remarks released by his office. “The world is becoming ever more dangerous, and it is more important than ever that we are united with our allies,” Starmer said. 

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